Leadership Book Reviews Samples For Students

A leader has the capability to lead a group of people, or an organization, and the actions performed by this leader are the features of leadership. I understand that there are various types of leaders depending on the profession, and the people they lead. Leading can be in any of the forms such as transformational, transactional, charismatic, authentic, and servant leadership. With the decade history of various leaders and their methods of leading the group, I agree that with the change in the society, and organizations it is required to exhibit new leadership skills to make people follow the changes, ...

Chapter 9 talks about transformational leadership. The chapter claims that in the transformational leadership process, the leader engages with his or her followers. The leader also creates a connection that raises the level of motivation and morality in both the leader and the follower. This is evidenced in the case of Mohandas Gandhi who raised the hopes and demands of millions of his people and in the process, he got changed himself as well. The claims are effective because in transformational leadership, the leader leads by example. Followers in this case are likely to find it easier to identify with ...

Adam Grant’s Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success is a momentous book that reveals the reason people succeed while others fail to make their dreams come true. Grant observes that effective influence, association, interacting, and leadership skills have one thing in common, that is, people’s manner of exchanging values.

Grant provides that, in dealings people operate either as takers, matchers, or givers. Grant presents takers as the people who constantly strive to obtain as much as they can from others while the intention of matchers is to trade evenly. Conversely, he presents givers as representing people ...

This paper has analyzed the problem of what impact does leadership have on quality. The scope of this work involves the specific work in the book called Leadership for quality by an author Juran J.M. It has reviewed various concepts by the author.

The approach to this problem has involved analyzing three functions of businesses, planning control and improvement in quality. Also, an analysis has been made in the work force part in order to get an idea of the factors that will lead to their improvement in quality.

The results in this analysis are that quality can be ...

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, a best seller by Patrick Lencioni who is a renowned speaker and consultant, was published in the year 2002 and since it’s publication it has helped many organizations in minimizing internal politics and cut throat behavior among employees of an organization. It has been helpful to the organizations in such a way that its effects were seen beyond the companies; in schools, government organizations, non government organizations, judiciary and political arena.

The author has successfully tried to explore the elementary reasons behind the internal politics and provided effective tips to prevail over basic human tendencies that ...

In his very inspiring book, You Don’t Need a Title to Be a Leader, author Mark Sanborn presents to the reader how everyone stands to be a good leader in their lives by making a positive impact in the lives of many others in their own unique ways. He presents a number of unsung heroes and how they used something in their possession to make a difference in other people’s lives even when they were not recognized as leaders. It takes picking a piece of broken bottle from the side walk to be a hero or heroine. A number of children might be kicking objects ...

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As an organizational leader,I would start briefly by introducing the topic, breaking it down to the lessons learnt and how they would help on the improvement of the organizations leadership and finally concluding on the findings this. PowerPoint style of presentation since it would allow for explaining one’s view and finding. It is also clearer, and presentation is neat and due to use of slide. It also helps the presenter to refer back.
There are lessons on leadership and ethics to be learnt.Presenting this book can help in improving the leadership skills and the relations between ...

Leadership is the main concept in the modern business and private life. It helps to distinguish successful managers and those who needs to learn more in order to become effective. Today there are many experts in the leadership sphere. However, John Maxwell is the most experienced writer and teacher on the subject of leadership. He has lots of writings and books in which he presents wealthy information on how to become a leader and how to improve the existing personal leadership qualities. Maxwell’s leadership book series cover different issues including attitude, equipping, relationships and leadership.
Leadership 101 is a ...

Organizational Leadership and Management

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The book “Who moved my cheese?” by Spencer Johnson, despite its international fame and common recognition, appears to be quite humble and simple. An average reader can cover all 96 pages of this book within an hour. Nevertheless this is one of the most prominent works about transformational leadership and delivers the intended message in the most popular and understandable form. The extended title “An amazing way to deal with change in your work and in your life” summarizes the main topic - the change, the context – professional and personal activities as ...

Abstract

This document includes the concepts and themes of leadership as presented in the book namely Transformational Leadership by Bernard M. Bass and Ronald E. Riggio. In addition, the principles of managements as discussed by Andrew J. Dubrin have also been incorporated in the paper. In this document, there is an argument presented by these gentlemen on leadership by using separate cases of different leaders around the world.
For instance, the case study presented by Bernard M. Bass and Ronald E. Riggio are Herb Kelleher as CEO and founder of Southwest Airlines’ success story while on the other hand, ...

The moral choices during war begin at the first choice of deciding whether to go into war. In this regard, war has different outcomes, which include victory or loss. These decisions affect the functioning of an individual during war because if the mind does not support the war, the body may not put in its full strength into the war. Greater deals of the choices that face an individual during war depict their leadership skills and the choices they would make as leaders. Going to war shows courage and bravery as well as a belief in a purpose while the opposite ...

In all his work Steven Pressfield has depicted his mastery in storytelling and his mysterious ability to bring out his story in a technique that is guides one into the theme of that story. Based on his writing, he is at his best when dealing with classical warfare and his historical research is completely built on all his works. Among his work is “The Virtues of War”. (Pressfield, Steven, 9) In this book he brings out a fascinating olden background, opens Alexander and all the Greeks. His major aim is to show out man’s greatest successes in the conquest.
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Presidencies Derailed Why University Leaders Fail and How to Prevent It by Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, Gerald B. Kauvar, E. Grady Bogue

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Presidencies Derailed Why University Leaders Fail and How to Prevent It by Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, Gerald B. Kauvar, E. Grady Bogue

Introduction

“Presidencies Derailed” is a book about why college presidencies collapse. While it is not the only book on the subject, it comes at a time when college presidents are failing. During 2009 and 2010, presidents of fifty universities, schools, colleges, and educational intuitions either resigned or fired. Presidencies Derailed examines sixteen such derailments and presents six ...

What special insights did I gain from the readings?

Leadership is a skill that is developed through judicious application of power. I learned from Sharer that a leader goes through a lot of personal and corporate disappointments before making it. Effective use of power yields organizational success. I now understand that leadership is simply the effective utilization of various types of power to influence peers, subordinates and superiors towards a desired and noble ideal. Finally, visions and values give a human face to leadership.

Personal reflections

I know people are generally resistant to change. Now I understand that the panacea lies in the ability to influence and persuade fellow employees to view a new issue from ...

Assignment Questions

Question one
According to Moyo, there are three categories of aid namely, charity-based aid, emergency or humanitarian aid and systematic aid. The author focuses on the systematic aid, which is the sum, total of grants and concessional loans that is given by the donor country to the recipient country (Moyo, 2009). It is a loan from the government of a developed country to the government of the developing country or from international financial institutions such as World Bank and IMF to the government of the developing countries. This type of aid is the most damaging and it is has detrimental ...

Practicing Greatness Book Review

The book “Practicing Greatness: 7 Disciplines of Extraordinary Spiritual Leaders,” written by Reggie McNeal is one of the famous literary works on seven fundamental disciplines for religious leaders. The author portrays a complete picture of a spiritual leader, by reaching multiple aspects that comprise an individual. From his long years of experience as the leader of the Church, McNeal illustrated several practical examples to examine the positive and negative aspects of leadership. The seven key disciplines stated by the author are self-awareness, self-management, mission, decision-making, belonging and aloneness. McNeal describes perfecting the strengths of leadership in the chapter called self-development by ...

In many great companies, the Level 5 leader has been found to be the most important factor for the company’s factor. It is not because they are able to do a great job themselves. Rather, it is because they are able to bring together disciplined and talented people to do the task. The Level 5 Leader simply sets the way for all the others to do the work. Among the four stages or principles, the Level 5 Leader is the most important to understand and emulate in an education or school environment.
The Level 5 Leader is not ...

Book Review

Since human beings do not live on isolation, through relating with others be it at the workplace, institutions or even in streets, they respond naturally when called upon to help. Confusion normally clicks in an individual mind whenever called upon to help but the authors enhance a way to conquer these confusions in every undertaking. The most surprising idea that the book portrays is individual’s reaction to assist when called upon. The authors attribute that response to nature of human beings. As a future nonprofit leader, the book assists in drawing a line between professionalism and the call to help. For ...

In "Confessions of an Economic Hitman," John Perkins tells the story about how he and others like him were able to have a huge impact on the world today in ways that many of the elite in society would rather keep secret. The story involves a lot of deceit, murderers, and traitors who are motivated by greed and power. Perkins gives details on how strong countries have the power to exploit another and even goes so far as to influence their politics. He explains how some countries are willing to go to extremes such as robbing another country of their natural resources, ...

Leadership in any setting requires discovering the congregational culture that may sound presumptuous at times. For centuries, religious leaders have been confronting the distinctive cultures of congregations. It is evident that immigrant congregations fought over changing the liturgy to a common language (English) and also battles took place during the Irish clergy period. History gives information that a number of anthropologists and ethnographers studied local congregations just like their colleagues would study the remote tribes both in South America and Africa. This paper aims at putting down the ideas learnt from the book of “Lead like Jesus” by Ken Blanchard and ...

Personal accountability in leading a foreign congregation

Personal accountability in leading a foreign congregation
The steady yet slow growth of the New Hope Church in America is an indication of commitment by the Korean-Americans to support the ministry's programs and cooperate in worship and fellowship. However, some negative notions imported from the Korean culture affect the success of the ministry's programs especially urban centers of America. Such notions such as the lack of sensitivity to community service are inherited by the new generation of believers from their elders. In the book “QBQ; the question behind the question” John Miller explains that a leader is responsible for initiating ...

Leading a Local Congregation Based On Stewardship and Institutional Development

“When a group of Individuals in any arena of life does well, one of the keys to understanding their success is to examine the leadership practices of the key leaders of that,”
“Lead Like Butler” focuses on the manner in which a team leader can influence success through the building of a strong value system. Its focus on the role of the leader is meant to point to the fact that no other figure in a group or convention is of more influence than its leader. The book holds the view that success in a group is based on building a value system which serves ...

Management

Introduction
In his book, “Supportive Leadership: The New Role of Leaders in the 21st Century”, Gunther H. Schust declares that the paradigms of management and leadership are changing in an increasingly globalized world. Schust points out that leaders could get the job done with blunt tactics of hiring and firing. However, the need of the hour is for leaders to professionally select employees, support them in their endeavors, challenge them in the work environment, make them further qualified and enable them to function seamlessly in a networked world. Schust (8) uses the new requirements of leaders to call for ...

Leading change by John Kotter provides a couple of processes that organizations can use to achieve the set goals. Apart from organizations, these processes can also be used by individuals; whether they are leaders or not. More to it, the author has also outlined where and how the top performers fail during the process of changing. He has also provided practical resources for individuals that are charged with the responsibilities of ensuring the needed change is pursued. To avoid failure and disappointment when effecting changes the author has provided a number of steps that are effective. According to Jung (2013), changes ...

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This book review examines how Tony Dungy deciphers the role of mentoring by leaders, in creating a lasting legacy of significance and integrity in the business or work of others. Written by a man all too familiar with the glories of NFL success, Tony Dungy experienced an early on and steadfast fulfillment of his own dreams and goals, whether as player or coach. In this collection of tightly woven symmetry Dungy voices a call for leaders to embrace a genuine interest in the people they manage, coach, nurture, and shepherd. Published by Tyndale House Publishers, a well-known Christian company, author Tony Dungy never struggles ...

Spanning the years from 1940 to 1965, the story in the last lion commences shortly after Winston Spencer Churchill became the prime minister. This is the time when his tiny island nation stood in solitude against the overwhelming power of the Nazi Germany. As conjured up by William Manchester and Paul Reid, Churchill was a man of lighting fast intellect, indomitable courage, and an irresistible will to action. The thesis of the author is built around the brilliant recount of how Churchill organized his nation’s military response and defense, and personified the so called never surrender ethos. He compelled ...

What Is Your Attitude Being a Manager?

A manager in any field is deemed to have all the required attributes of being a manager. The manager is responsible for planning and then directing the duties allocated to individuals. They are expected to act in an effective manner through coordinated monitoring the work done and carrying out the necessary and sufficient correction of the failed actions. This is done when it is deemed necessary. Ideally, the management posts fit the individuals who have supervisory abilities. In most areas, the managers are expected to have the proceedings in the organization or firm that they are allocated the responsibilities. That ...

Introduction

The book Charles I: A Life of Religion, War and Treason by Christopher Hibbert take a closer look of the life of King Charles. The book is a biography of King Charles from the begging of his life a simple boy to what he came to be know globally and finally to his shame (treason). Christopher uses his creative mind in his book shed some light on how the kind grew from a simple boy who knew nothing and was very weak in character to a strong man who took the nations to a civil war. The books also take a look at the person who had ...

Book Review

The book discusses the impact of centralization and decentralization of organizations. The authors show that while the lack of a leader may represent chaos, the lack of a traditional leader may be a good way for the organization to survive since there is no specific leader that the rivals can target in order to destroy the organization. The story of the Apache community is used to demonstrate the strength that exists in a decentralized organization. The Apache community was able to defeat the Spanish army because it did not have a centralized leadership. In the same manner, when MGM, a giant in the production industry, ...

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The book by Irwin (2009) Derailed: Five Lessons Learned from Catastrophic Failures of Leadership is wonderful leadership and management guidebook. It answers the paradox question that every leader in the 21st century is seeking an answer to, how to avoid a downfall after ushering a company into unimaginable heights of success. Though this question is hard and tricky to answer, Irwin used history of outstanding CEOs that have over the years fallen prey into the sucking abyss of derailment. As a result, their actions cost them a position in a company that in most cases were the founders. Not only ...

Introduction

The book, “A systems approach to small group interaction 11th edition” is a revised edition from the tenth edition of the same book. Stewart writes it. Ideally, it entails different scholarly and practical information based on a small group interaction. The content does not deviate from the title. It is comprised of eight distinct chapters within which information from the tenth edition has been modified to address the current audience. The various named and edited material within the book are as a result of the frank contributions from the avid readers of the book. The main adjustments are deemed to have been ...

Peter Block defines leadership as an act of stewardship where an individual commits to doing good for the sake of the community. This symbolic idea redefines the term leadership by ensuring that leadership is a form of partnership and commitment to improving a greater society and calls this act stewardship. In addition, leaders can be involved in building the economy by seeking teamwork from the people surrounding. This act is contrary to the mainstream idea of a leadership that defines it as singular and one with power and authority over the people. Thus, Peter Block asserts that leadership should be grounded to ...

I am Mr. Rodgers Mott. My parents are Mr. William Mott and Mrs. Lucretia Mott.
I am here to support motion 2 because since the beginning of Christianity as religion women have played important roles in the church and even in the bible, which is used to guide Christians. Women in the bible such as Mary played the role of being the first to visit the tomb of Jesus and to remind the disciples that Jesus had risen from death. Women should, therefore, be allowed to take part in church activities. Taking part in church activities entails even ...

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One of the most unique works of English literature is a fairy tale allegory "Animal Farm» by George Orwell. The story of “Animal farm” is very simple and dramatic. The action of this story occurs at the manor house (farm “Manor”), the owners of which are Mr. and Mrs. Jones. The animals here, as in any fairy tale, endowed with human qualities. All exposition begins with that the old leader (Meyer) tells the other animals his dream, in which all people disappeared from the earth and the world is ruled only by animals, there is no oppression and all are ...

The Book Steel my Soldiers Hearts

The book steels my soldiers hearts is the embodiment of military genius. It is the personification of military prowess at work and the perfect combination of military strategy and art. In other words the book involves military strategy being combined with art and a genius to provide the best available military team at a time of war. The setting of the book is during the Vietnam War, one of the most brutal wars in the history of modern warfare. The book is about Lieutenant David Hackworth. David Hackworth had just written a tactical masterpiece for the pentagon in terms of well thought ...

In the Name of Jesus is a story that provides information regarding Christianity and leadership. The objective of the author is to provide information on the manner in which leaders should behave. The content in this book is basically dedicated to the clergy but is also an informative book as regards those Christians who are in leadership positions. In the book, Nouwen examines three temptations that Jesus faced before the beginning of his ministry and compares those temptations with the temptations that leaders face in contemporary societies. Nouwen then looks at the challenge that Jesus provided to Peter after the ...

Introduction

In the history of genocide crimes, the question of responsibility always crops up. International organizations of justice have always argued that responsibility for genocide and war crimes is a collective and individual responsibility. Everyone is responsible in their own right but also it is the duty of the society as a whole to work against forces that would otherwise promote occurrence of war atrocities. This paper is a comparative piece drawing evidences and incidents between the works of Slavenka Drakulic in the book “They Would Never Hurt A Fly: War Criminals on Trial in the Hague” and Heda Margolius Kovaly works in ...

The book illustrates the dynamic ideas that shape black politicians, intellectuals, and social movement activists’ behavior as they participate in U.S foreign issues towards Africa. The author is an African descendant interested with knowledge on racism. This is because of the rich and reassuring conversations he had on race relations from his immediate family and the shadow of civil rights associations. At the same time, his parents had exposed him to the realities of Africa through art, museums, and books hence able to counter psychological assault by the whites.
Black Americans are deeply ambivalent on their status as ...

The book by James Hunter addresses fundamental principles needed for leadership. It is emphasized that to lead is never becoming the boss. Servant leadership is a robust, an innovative concept which may have a significant influence in the restaurant performance. As a servant leader in a restaurant, it is feasible to turn from boss and manager to mentor and coach. This helps in determining the mission, standards, values and accountability within the premise. Servant leaders never take a vote or take a poll regarding critical leadership fundamentals. Servant leader can always turn the restaurant structure upside down, provided the critical leadership fundamentals are in place. ...

As the clergy, you have the responsibility to voice your views in the most peaceful manner. The main reasons as to why the demonstrations are there is because of the increase of the racial problems between the whites and the blacks. Both parties have the capability of sitting down as knowledgeable people with experience of the situation going on and try to come up with the proper solutions. This is because everyone has a responsibility of accepting the responsibilities and find all possible ways to accomplish them. We clearly understand why the Negros is demonstrating as they have been patiently ...

In a Christian context, leadership is preserved for the most prominent or highly ranked people in the community. Whereas the rest of the people are doomed to the incompetence of leadership. According to Kouzes, 2006 leadership is the ability or procedure to which an individual earns respect and authority to guide the community. For instance, during the lifetime of Jesus Christ traits of good leadership skill were portrayed in all his undertakings. In addition, the article discourages the dominance leadership for specific individuals with the top position and advocates for the creation of the leadership team in accordance to the ...

According to James and Barry, (2004) leadership is an attribute that is only associated with those people who hold top positions in the community and the rest of the people are doomed to the incompetence of leadership. The authors used Jesus Christ’s life experience as a suitable example of the indispensable teaches or lesson for a good leader. In other terms, leadership is the ability or procedure to which an individual becomes a “lifelong learner”. The article discourages the dominance of the individual with the top position and advocates for a leadership team along people’s abilities. For effective and efficient leadership ...

Business:

Ways to reduce social loafing;
- Breaking the groups to a smaller number of people and asking them to do work at different turns, inn this case, the groups working on a specific day will be leaner and individual output will be conspicuous.
- Asking members of a group to point out members who do not fully participate and having them penalized.
The original cause of social loafing in this case was that there was a big group and having them work together would minimize the observation of individual member’s contribution, in that case members would perform lesser than ...

In the book”Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors” by Stephen E. Ambrose, the lives of these two great historical rivals are revealed. The author intends to reveal a clash of two cultures during the Civil War of Little Bighorn, on June 25, 1876. His two main characters being Crazy Horse, a Native American warrior, and General Custer, a white American cavalry officer. Through Ambrose’s revelations one can gain a better understanding of their character by comparing and contrasting these two warriors, revealing both their triumphs and failures.
Culture played a big part in the conflict. The ...

Book Review Questions

Part A: Reflections

I believe that learning involves sharing while respecting diversity. In the course of my study, I intend to learn the various moral and legal aspects of running a successful business entity that emphasizes on the need to conduct business professionally. In addition, for my organization to flourish, I think I will try and familiarize myself with good customer relations, good time keeping and also discipline my self in regard to finances or money management.
After acquiring some of these skills, I will try and share with other individuals in the quest to create favorable and fair ...

Business

Question one
Leadership is an important trait that each individual should seek to nurture and develop. In her book ,the 85% Solution: How Personal Accountability Guarantees Success No Nonsense, No Excuses, Linda Galindo articulates this idea. Galindo is of the view that the fundamental way that people can be able to develop leadership is by acquiring a sense of responsibility in terms of the choices, behaviors, and the actions that people take. The lack of responsibility among the people is what has led to detrimental effects such as economic meltdowns. For example, in the 2008 recession, the lack of ...

Book Review: “Women in Ancient Persia (559-331 B.C)" 1996 by Maria Brosius

Maria Brosius presents a thoughtful and visionary examination of the status and the influential role that the women played in the first Persian Empire. The author reviews the effect of the political hostility between Greece and Persia, drawing conclusions that the situation caused the eventual representation of the women in the Persian sources. According to Brosius, to understand the women, the historical development and the narrative pattern played a major role in the insight. Brosius reveals the roles that women in ancient Persia played, especially in the liberation of fellow women and in the economic development of the empire. Strategic roles ...

“The Prince” is a book by Niccolo Machiavelli that features an honesty leader who is only ideal to the real world of politics. Machiavelli is trying to say that he can be that faultless leader. He at times said much truth about him beyond what the people did not want to hear nor accept. Niccolo Machiavelli wrote the book following his failure in the field of politics and of what his honesty in the politics. The author brings out an honesty position regarding the way he puts his ideas all through his book.
Looking into the background surrounding Machiavelli ...

This is a study by Jean Lipman-blumen shedding more light on disastrous leadership. It offers a deep understanding of the corporate scandal as well as political folly. The author argues that, bad leaders are not the ones to blame but rather the subjects led since they are the one who put them into power and allow them to cling there. After analyzing the story of Adolf Hitler of Germany and Jeff Skillinngs of Enron, she makes the conclusion that the followers of the toxic leaders are the victims who gave way to misguided leadership. This book gives a deep understanding to anyone ...

A basic challenge in climbing peaks like Everest is that air past 800o meters becomes exceptionally obscure. There are just 14 mountains globally with maximum heights of more than 8000 meters and though top climbers strive to conquer all of them this also implies that the faculties of their brains is impeded severely, and cannot spend longer time periods in zones over 8,000 meters devoid of risking their lives, even without storm. Rob Hall was to rule on turnaround times to ensure that his worn out clients could make it back to camp before it became dark, as ...

Introduction Culture and Leadership in New Zealand

Introduction
Culture has a great influence on leadership according to various researches that have been conducted. According to Hewison (2006), leadership characteristics are deep rooted in the unique context of each culture. There has been no generally accepted definition of leadership, but majority definitions focus on values, beliefs, attitudes, behavior across cultures and influence that people hold in leadership position hold. Cross cultural research have identified what constitute leadership and the behaviors across cultures. It has also been also identified the various theories used in description of leadership. Leadership in most of the cultures across the globe is dependent ...

Introduction

This book aims at giving encouragement to those that seek or take up leadership positions especially within the church context. Apostle Paul, of the Bible, is Mac Arthurs personality for study. Nevertheless, he has also explored on other leaders such as Nehemiah who was a great leader too. This book has articulated 26 leadership principles which are the core values for great leadership (MacArthur 67). These principles include: a leader is trustworthy, initiative, has sound judgment, speaks with power, empowers others, enthusiastic and optimistic, by no means compromises the absolutes, focused on objectives and not impediments, empowers by model, encourages loyalty, ...

Ralph Reavis wrote Apostles of Self-Help and Independence as a history of the Virginia Seminary and College (since 1996 the Virginia University of Lynchburg) of which he has served as the current president since 2000. Like the majority of the university’s past sixteen presidents, he is also one of its graduates. He has written works on Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement, and has taught at William and Mary and Howard Universities and the University of Richmond. Reavis defends the Seminary’s tradition of autonomy and freedom from the control of white donors and institutions, which was a ...

- Analysis of the Author The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War is a historical fiction piece of writing by Michael Shaara, an American Born Italian immigrant, who has received Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for this book in 1975. The book is based upon the battle of Gettysburg of American Civil War in 1863. It describes the events that took place during the war from the perspectives of troop leaders of both Confederacy and Union; how they have made their planning, took decisions and then implemented them during the war. Michael was able to understand all those ...

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‘The great Gatsby,’ by Scott Fitzgerald elaborates the events that took place in the late years of 1922. The novel brings the substantive findings in contribution to the findings in the literature overview regarding particular topics. The novel focuses on the master piece of literature in regards to the capturing the essence of the related era of World War 1.
The various characters are brought out vividly in the context that seeks to illustrate the various themes. The novel focuses to bring the various epics related to the love and relationships in the social arena. The book is ...

Managing the team is an art rather than a science. There are no specific rules on how to manage a team and how to get the most out of the team. One leader may use different strategies and techniques in order to get the most out from the team, whereas another leader might come up with different style to enhance the productivity of the team. This essay highlights the philosophy of leadership from the perspective of Phil Jackson. The overall essay analyzes leadership and how Jackson built the team as explained by him in his book Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons of a ...

Totalitarian movements are significantly characteristic and their leaders have massive fame; however, they are been forgotten and replaced swiftly. The successors of totalitarian do not give them the credit they deserve but rather rule in their own way. For instance, following the defeat and death of Hitler, his doctrines do not play any role in the current regimes even amongst the neo-Nazi and neo-Fascists of post war Germany. The totalitarian movements appear to stay in power only when they keep moving and when everything around them is set in motion (Arendt, 1973). Additionally, they appear to be relevant only ...

Leadership is an attribute of a person with the capability of organizing a group of people or workers for a common goal or objective. In leadership, power pays less influence as compared with the influence. Leaders are visionary, with viable ideas and strategies aimed at achieving a given set of objectives predetermined in the activities. In today’s management leadership plays crucial roles in influencing the managerial processes to be adopted by an organization. Without key strategies of motivating workers or influencing them for a common mission, the organization performance trend is likely to be in a decreasing trend. Leaders in an organization are required ...

“Holy Mavericks: Evangelical Innovators and the Spiritual Marketplace” by Shayne Lee and Phillip Lukesinitiere

Summary: In their book “Holy Mavericks” Shayne Lee and Phillip Luke provide readers with a description and explanation about the success of evangelical leadership in the competitive American religious arena. The authors take a firm religious economies theoretical approach in their book and provide the readers with a very typical example modern day successful religious innovator. The book contains a study of five particular evangelical leaders that Lee and Sinitiere conducted book in order to put together the essential traits of the example they present in their book. By studying these five evangelical leaders, the authors demonstrate that they possess the ability to ...

The Red Badge of Courage is a war book written by Stephen Crane. The setting of the book is during the civil war. The novel is a story about a youthful fearful man named Henry who grows from innocence to maturity. This novel talks of Henry Fleming, a young private of union army who runs away from the battlefield due to the fear of death. When he joined the army, he wanted to fulfill his dreams of glory but after his first battle, he flees away because he fears dying. Henry gets back after hearing the news that his regime managed to repel ...